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U-Report is a SMS mobile technology tool developed by UNICEF to empower youth to have voice on the social and economic issues affecting their communities. Despite the extensive use of U-Report globally, this case study focuses on the implementation of U-Report in Uganda, which was the first country to pilot...

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The European Local Democracy Week (ELDW) is an annual event in Europe which fosters local and national participation in promoting the knowledge of local democracy and the idea of democratic participation at a local level.

Suffering from elite capture and low representation, Makueni County developed and implemented a new framework for Participatory Budgeting focusing on the village and sub-Ward levels. The new framework has increased participation and representation of lower-class individuals.

Since the early 2000s, Uganda has placed an emphasis on bottom-up development by NGO’s and microfinance. The ‘people-centred’ approach to poverty alleviation and community development allows active participation and self-determination absent in the traditional market and state top-down models that discouraged popular participation and alienated citizens.